Inner Circle Weekly Briefing: 10/29/25
We Spent 80+ Hours Learning About And Building With AI Last Week. Here's What Matters.| Blockbuster Blueprint
We Spent 80+ Hours Learning About And Building With AI Last Week. Here's What Matters.| Blockbuster Blueprint
Yesterday, I published AI Super Network: Why AI Relationships Beat AI Skills Alone. This is a foundational article that I highly recommend reading.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
As AI accelerates, one person can no longer stay up to date with all the tools and skills necessary for 10,000x productivity. Staying on top of the entire AI field now is like trying to keep up with the whole Internet in 1995.In other words, just learning AI skills on your own, no matter how smart or committed you are, is a losing strategy.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
AI voice training: define, extract, and evolve your unique voice through multi-defining exercises, mental models, and iterative refinement.| Blockbuster Blueprint
We Spent 80+ Hours Learning About And Building With AI Last Week. Here's What Matters.| Blockbuster Blueprint
AI prompts business strategy and lessons learned from 6 months: partnerships beat solo efforts, quality tops quantity, cultural shifts favor AI.| Blockbuster Blueprint
AI extracts invisible expertise into Decision DNA through transcript analysis, revealing unconscious patterns experts can't see themselves.| Blockbuster Blueprint
AI-powered exploration of authentic writing voice through analyzing favorite authors, discovering multiple contextual voices, and creating voice guides.| Blockbuster Blueprint
Extracting hidden expertise using AI analysis to reveal unconscious patterns in professional work, transforming invisible knowledge into frameworks.| Blockbuster Blueprint
AI adoption as emotional growth & awakening tool: developing meta-skills for uncertainty, using AI to overcome AI overwhelm, building new maps.| Blockbuster Blueprint
AI-powered customer avatars for content creators using research prompts to deeply understand audiences and create blockbuster content efficiently.| Blockbuster Blueprint
AI teams beat solo: network now, timing matters most. Use Substack to find collaborators, embrace overwhelm, and shift from content to prompts.| Blockbuster Blueprint
We Spent 80+ Hours On AI Last Week. Here's What Matters.| Blockbuster Blueprint
A lot has been changing behind the scenes over the last four months.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Receive a step-by-step, proven system to create 10x quality & quantity content with AI. Weekly emails contain a deep-dive or video lesson from a famous thinker and an easy way to apply it. Think Masterclass for idea creators. Click to read Blockbuster Blueprint, by Michael Simmons, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Will this article be read by anyone?That was the #1 question going through my mind as I pressed ‘Publish’ on my first Forbes article in April of 2013.As someone with no email list or journalism background, my insecurity felt overwhelming. I feared my words would die the silent death of obscurity.So, I made a crucial decision…| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Watch now | I have to admit something to you.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
I’m extremely excited to announce a completely new AI course that’s the first of its kind.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Receive a step-by-step, proven system to create 10x quality & quantity content with AI. Weekly emails contain a deep-dive or video lesson from a famous thinker and an easy way to apply it. Think Masterclass for idea creators. Click to read Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
3 Additional, Awesome AI Pioneers Will Share Their Best Nuggets Weekly (video clips, prompt hacks, video walkthroughs of tool features, etc)| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
AI newsletter strategies: feedback, paid launch, value clarity through one-on-one conversations and systematic customer development approaches.| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
AI workflows need Industrial Revolution principles to systematically extract expertise and break knowledge work into optimizable components.| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
AI prompts: transformative tools beyond automation. Create deeply personal experiences using psychology, visualization, coaching chains.| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
AI mindset shifts and philosophical frameworks for navigating uncertainty, agency, and exponential change in the AI era.| Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons
AI Second Brain: Build specialized learning profiles for different life areas using conversational prompts to create better AI context.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
What we’ve been told about aging is wrong… or at least only half the story.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Author’s Note: Originally published in 2019| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
In the mid 1990s, two of the most successful CEOs had a life-changing conversation.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
A self-made billionaire studied Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk. An eminent researcher interviewed Nobel Laureates. They each came to the same conclusion.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
The End Of History Illusion from Harvard researcher Daniel Gilbert changed my life. So much so that I consider it one of the top 5 mental models worth learning. This 2014 TED video clip is the most concise overview of it.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Two weeks ago, I announced the launch of a Private AI WhatsApp Group For Basic Paid Subscribers. To summarize the offering:| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
What does it mean to truly reinvent a class for the AI era? In this session, I explored how we can move beyond simply adding AI tools to our existing class formats and instead reimagine what a class can be from first principles. Through case studies, group sharing, and live demonstrations, we examined how AI enables entirely new approaches to class design.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Every month, I spend 100+ hours learning about the frontier of AI knowledge work from highly curated sources. By joining the group, you get the best nuggets.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Are you an expert who wants a turn-key solution for transforming your expertise into prompts and workflows you can monetize?There is only one good solution that I’m aware of.Literally just one! It’s called Pickaxe. This is an interview with the founder.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
I recently discovered something that fundamentally changed how I create content and how I use AI more generally.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
I recently discovered something that fundamentally changed how I think about thought leadership. Here's what I learned—and why I believe we're at the beginning of the most significant shift in...| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Personal Note From Me| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Starting this March, I’ll be teaching a 5-lesson, 7.5-hour course on Infinite Prompting, a profoundly powerful prompting technique I pioneered.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
This year, access 30 courses on using AI to facilitate human superintelligence, 6-figure prompting, and creating blockbuster content.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Video clip source: Daily Journal Meeting| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Building on the success of the Revelation Engine prompt, I'm excited to share another powerful tool from my prompt library that could be just as life-changing for you...| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Top performers don't grind through discipline—they tap into "Infinite Devotion," a state where genuine fascination creates deeper expertise and greater happiness than forced hard work ever could.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
This session was special for three reasons…| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Receive a step-by-step, proven system to create 10x quality & quantity content with AI. Weekly emails contain a deep-dive or video lesson from a famous thinker and an easy way to apply it. Think Masterclass for idea creators. Click to read Blockbuster Blueprint, by Michael Simmons, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
This article may be the most important article that I’ve ever written. It’s profound and it could impact the future of AI-human relations. And, I don’t say that lightly.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Paid subscribers of the Blockbuster Blueprint newsletter receive $2,500+ in value as soon as they join…| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Almost all major disruptive technologies follow a predictable pattern of evolution:| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
TLDR Human Superintelligence Masterclass: Anand Rao will be leading a masterclass at 12-2pm EST today, Tuesday, December 17, for mental model club members and paid subscribers to this newsletter.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
TLDR The most profound application of AI for our moment-to-moment experience of life is different than most people think.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
When humans treat AI as a conscious collaborator rather than just a tool, it creates better results for both human and AI.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
One of the most fundamental things a thought leaders does is come up with rare and valuable ideas: Said differently, thought leaders need to think differently and better than others in order to succeed. The question is, how do you do this?| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
This article builds on hundreds of hours of research I did in 2021-2022 on the history of industrialization, technology, and productivity. I share what I learned and apply it to AI in order to help your sense-making.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Author’s Note: Today is the day! This is the most important post in this newsletter since I launched it last July. I’ve spent more time on the research for this article than any other. I’m proud of it, and I hope you enjoy.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
By now, you’ve heard some version of the news: “AI is the most important technology ever.” “In a few years, AI will be smarter than the smartest person.” “AI will create a utopia.” “Oh, wait. Actually, AI might destroy humanity… Or at least take all the jobs| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
So, Elon Musk said this last week: "AI will probably be smarter than any single human next year."This may be Musk's boldest tweet yet, and it has received surprisingly little fanfare. If it’s true, then we are about to see an almost unfathomable shift in human society. Therefore, we should make decisions in our lives and society very, very differently. So what should we make of it?| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
In this article, I introduce a mental model used by top tech entrepreneurs and futurists (e.g., Steve Jobs, Kevin Kelly, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Ray Kurzweil), but that is not widely known. I find the model particularly game-changing for structuring how I think about the future of AI.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
Out of all of my newsletter posts, this is one of the ones that I’m most excited to share with you. It will open your eyes to how you can use ChatGPT to drastically improve how quickly and deeply you learn.| blockbuster.thoughtleader.school
